foster4prez
Well-Known Member
Those are crossovers. Not SUVs.
Those are crossovers. Not SUVs.
EPA divisions between "passenger" and "non-passenger" vehicles have been around since the 70's. The "attribute" based system was developed and put into place under Dubya and formally codified 5 years later under Obama. The Biden administration made impressive strives in working to close the loophole that allowed for larger trucks and SUVs to skirt the regulations.Explain your point, just throwing that out there without a counter offer makes your post not math either.
I never stated Obama bad. Although I didn't have all the information and maybe not all of the correct information or at least loosely correct, my point was a a person gets to choose who they wanted to mad at for the issue based on their own feelings. This is the problem with one sided thinking. I simply made a statement (although loose on the facts but still pretty much on point), you took it to close to the heart and felt you had to defend it even though you misread the entire thing.EPA divisions between "passenger" and "non-passenger" vehicles have been around since the 70's. The "attribute" based system was developed and put into place under Dubya and formally codified 5 years later under Obama. The Biden administration made impressive strives in working to close the loophole that allowed for larger trucks and SUVs to skirt the regulations.
It's way more complicated than "Obama bad"
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The Truck-Size Loophole in the EPA’s Car Emissions Rule
Automakers can choose how they meet the standard. As long as their fleet as a whole is in compliance, they can keep making pretty much whatever cars they want.newrepublic.com
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New "Attributes" of the Clean Vehicle Standards
In order to grasp vehicle greenhouse gas and fuel economy rules, the first thing to understand is the so-called “attribute-based system.” In this second part of our "Anatomy of a Rule" mini-series, we’re going to take a moment to demystify it. In 2007, when fuel economy standards were revamped by Cblog.ucs.org